Listed 27 sub titles with search on: Monuments reported by ancient authors for wider area of: "KALAMATA Province MESSINIA" .
THALAMES (Ancient city) LEFKTRA
From Oetylus to Thalamae the road is about eighty stades long. On it is a sanctuary of Ino and an oracle. They consult the oracle in sleep, and the goddess reveals whatever they wish to learn, in dreams. Bronze statues of Pasiphae and of Helios stand in the unroofed part of the sanctuary. It was not possible to see the one within the temple clearly, owing to the garlands, but they say this too is of bronze.
This extract is from: Pausanias, Description of Greece. Harvard University Press
Cited Aug 2002 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
ALAGONIA (Ancient city) AVIA
Thirty stades inland from Gerenia is Alagonia, a town which I have already mentioned in the list of the Free Laconians. Worth seeing here are temples of Dionysus and of Artemis.
Thirty stades inland from Gerenia is Alagonia, a town which I have already mentioned in the list of the Free Laconians. Worth seeing here are temples of Dionysus and of Artemis.
AVIA (Ancient city) KALAMATA
There was a notable temple of Heracles here, and also of Asclepius.
There was a notable temple of Heracles here, and also of Asclepius.
EPANO KARDAMYLI (Medieval settlement) KALAMATA
In the town is a sanctuary of Athena.
FARES (Ancient city) KALAMATA
But the surest warrant for their account of the Asclepiadae is that they point to a tomb of Machaon in Gerenia and to the sanctuary of his sons at Pharae.
Isthmius the son of Glaucus built a shrine also to Gorgasus and Nicomachus which is in Pharae.
GERINIA (Ancient city) AVIA
Here in Gerenia is a tomb of Machaon, son of Asclepius, and a holy sanctuary. In his temple men may find cures for diseases. They call the holy spot Rhodos; there is a standing bronze statue of Machaon, with a crown on his head which the Messenians in the local speech call kiphos.
In the territory of Gerenia is a mountain, Calathium; on it is a sanctuary of Claea with a cave close beside it.
LEFKTRA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
On the acropolis is a sanctuary and image of Athena.
There is a temple and grove of Eros in Leuctra. Water flows through the grove in winter-time, but the leaves which are shaken from the trees by the wind would not be carried away by the water even in flood.
LIMNES (Ancient city) KALAMATA
In the interior is a village Calamae and a place Limnae, where is a sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis (Of the lake). They say that Teleclus king of Sparta met his end here.
The temple of Artemis at Limnae, at which the Messenians are reputed to have outraged the maidens who had come to the sacrifice, is on the boundaries between Laconia and Messenia, where both peoples held assemblies and offered sacrifice in common; and they say that it was after the outraging of the maidens, when the Messenians refused to give satisfaction for the act, that the war took place.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo, ed. H. L. Jones, Cambridge. Harvard University Press
Cited Aug 2002 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
THOURIA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
The people of Thuria left their town, which lay originally on high ground, and came down to live in the plain. Nevertheless the upper town is not entirely deserted, but there are remains of the wall and a temple there, called the temple of the Syrian Goddess.
EPANO KARDAMYLI (Medieval settlement) KALAMATA
In the town is a sanctuary of Athena, and an Apollo Carneius according to the local Dorian custom.
LEFKTRA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
The inhabitants honor Asclepius most of the gods. There is a stone statue of Asclepius.
There is a stone statue of Asclepius, and of Ino in another place.
There are wooden images of Apollo Carneius according to the same custom that prevails among the Lacedaemonians of Sparta.
I record an event which I know to have taken place in my time on the coast of Leuctra. A fire carried by the wind into a wood destroyed most of the trees, and when the place showed bare, a statue of Zeus of Ithome was found to have been dedicated there. The Messenians say that this is evidence that Leuctra was formerly a part of Messenia. But it is possible, if the Lacedaemonians originally lived in Leuctra, that Zeus of Ithome might be worshipped among them.
This extract is from: Pausanias, Description of Greece. Harvard University Press
Cited Aug 2002 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
PEFNOS (Ancient city) LEFKTRA
Twenty stades from Thalamae is a place called Pephnus on the coast. In front of it lies a small island no larger than a big rock, also called Pephnus. In this little island there are bronze statues of the Dioscuri, a foot high, in the open air. The sea will not move them, though in winter-time it washes over the rock, which is wonderful.
THALAMES (Ancient city) LEFKTRA
From Oetylus to Thalamae the road is about eighty stades long. On it is a sanctuary of Ino and an oracle. They consult the oracle in sleep, and the goddess reveals whatever they wish to learn, in dreams. Bronze statues of Pasiphae and of Helios stand in the unroofed part of the sanctuary. It was not possible to see the one within the temple clearly, owing to the garlands, but they say this too is of bronze. Pasiphae is a title of the Moon, and is not a local goddess of the people of Thalamae.
This extract is from: Pausanias, Description of Greece. Harvard University Press
Cited Aug 2002 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks
From Oetylus to Thalamae the road is about eighty stades long. On it is a sanctuary of Ino and an oracle. Bronze statues of Pasiphae and of Helios stand in the unroofed part of the sanctuary.
FARES (Ancient city) KALAMATA
The people of Pharae possess also a temple of Fortune (Tyche) and an ancient image.
LEFKTRA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
Also a temple and statue have been erected to Cassandra the daughter of Priam, called Alexandra by the natives.
EPANO KARDAMYLI (Medieval settlement) KALAMATA
Cardamyle, which is mentioned by Homer in the Gifts promised by Agamemnon, is subject to the Lacedaemonians of Sparta, having been separated from Messenia by the emperor Augustus. It is eight stades from the sea and sixty from Leuctra. Here not far from the beach is a precinct sacred to the daughters of Nereus. They say that they came up from the sea to this spot to see Pyrrhus the son of Achilles, when he was going to Sparta to wed Hermione.
This extract is from: Pausanias, Description of Greece. Harvard University Press
Cited Aug 2002 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
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